MySQL CPU Performance: Tuning for Modern Workloads

Boost MySQL database efficiency and scalability with targeted CPU workload tuning techniques. Discover actionable performance strategies from Oracle’s 2026 MySQL Belgium Days event. In this session, Dimitri Kravtchuk, Principal Performance Architect at Oracle, delivers an in-depth look at understanding and tuning CPU-bound workloads in MySQL. Drawing on real-world benchmarks and years of experience, Dimitri explains how to distinguish between memory and storage bottlenecks, optimize parallel connections, and address common tuning challenges for production databases. Throughout the presentation, viewers will learn the impact of primary and secondary index design, key configuration parameters, and the effects of binlog and concurrent threads. The session offers practical insights into measuring query performance, leveraging cluster table organization, safely scaling up user connections, and making the most of auto-adaptive features in new MySQL releases. Presented live at the 2026 MySQL Belgium Days event, this expert-led session is a must for database admins, architects, and developers aiming to maximize query throughput and ensure stable, high-performance MySQL deployments.